I’m launching the Successful Innovation Learning Outcomes Notebook.It’s a deliberately bounded experiment with independent value, built to make my work easier to explore, question, apply, and build upon through an AI-assisted interface. To create it, I took the PDF of my book, Successful Innovation Outcomes in Law: A Practical Guide for Law Firms, Law Departments and Other Legal …
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A federal judge has blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from carrying out an effort to obtain state voter-registration rolls and compare them against a federal immigration database, ruling that the initiative was unlawful. The decision marks a significant setback for a nationwide voting-enforcement strategy that states and voting-rights groups argued could lead to erroneous voter removals and place improper…
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The SEC has brought a closely watched enforcement action against former Linqto executives William Sarris and Joseph Endoso, alleging they misled thousands of retail investors who used Linqto’s platform to gain exposure to private, high-growth companies before IPO. According to SEC Litigation Release No. 26672, the agency claims the defendants made false or misleading statements about key aspects of…
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Friday’s legal developments point to a familiar but intensifying theme in U.S. law: courts and regulators are continuing to shape the practical boundaries of enforcement, corporate risk, and litigation strategy in real time. For attorneys tracking exposure across industries, the significance is less about any single headline than about the cumulative signal these developments send.

Across the most consequential updates,…
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AI is everywhere in legal. Trust is another matter. Nearly half of legal organisations have now embedded AI into their workflows. Yet just 33% of senior professionals trust the results according […]
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I keep hearing all this stuff about how AI is creating a generation of lawyers who can’t think, write, or research. That they have a sense of entitlement. I have to admit I’m liitle suspicious since every generation was labled worse than the one before it. Yet we all somehow managed to survive. And I was encouraged by the approach of a…
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Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Few cultural critics can diagnose digital rot with the ferocious precision, moral clarity, and linguistic flair of Cory Doctorow. Taking the stage for the session titled Rethinking Our Relationship with AI, Doctorow, an activist, author, and special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was interviewed by Jessica Rosenworcel, fellow at the…
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Founded in January 2026, bootstrapped legal tech startup iDealLegal.ai is targeting small law firms and lean in-house legal teams with an AI legal team trained on playbooks and contract experience. […]
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From fresh funding rounds and acquisitions to a wave of agentic AI launches, it’s been another busy week in legal tech. Pandektes and Arceus have raised multi-million Series As, Opus […]
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A federal appeals court has sharply limited an Atlanta family’s effort to recover damages from the government over a mistaken 2017 FBI raid on their home, holding that their claims against the United States cannot proceed to trial even as claims against the lead agent personally may continue.

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The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with an auto dealership group that it framed as a win for price transparency, underscoring how aggressively the agency continues to police vehicle advertising and sales practices. Even without a fully detailed complaint publicly highlighted in the initial announcement, the action is notable as a same-day federal consumer-protection development with immediate relevance for…
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Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Picture a modern commercial airliner cruising at 38,000 feet through pitch-black skies over the Mediterranean. The ride is smooth, the cockpit instruments are calm, and suddenly an automated, mechanical voice pierces the darkness: “Terrain, Terrain. Pull Up”. The flight crew faces a terrifying split-second dilemma: are they seconds away from slamming…
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